Back to Campo Bello

After a little more than a week of being back, prepping for our next trip, we are heading out to Campo Bello for the better part of April. We'll be doing the same data collection as we did in Anachere last month. We expect to return to San Borja around the 25th of April. It'll be great to get back to Campo Bello, the close community that we've been unable to visit since all of the flooding took place. We actually haven't been to Campo Bello since mid-October, so we're really looking forward to catching up with people in the community and seeing how things have changed.

Campo Bello is downriver from San Borja and as such was severely affected by all the flooding. During the flooding, we encountered many people from Campo Bello in San Borja, including Paublina, this spry 90 year old woman with a hunch back. When we'd visit at her house, we would always comment about how she had the best view of the river as her house was just meters from the river bank.  She also had a new covered-well, water pump at her house that she was incredibly proud of and would frequently talk about how nice it was to not have to get water from the river anymore. She would always start listing how many kids and grandkids she has (more than 70!).

Unfortunately, during the flooding her house and the well both fell into the river through erosion of the river bank. We're going to be taking aid packages to every family in the community once again as well as conducting interviews. We hope to be able to help out the families in Campo Bello as well as get data collection back on track for this community. Our team is ready to get back to the field:

Asher prepping for sample collection:

Kelly posing with Barbaro, our San Borja compadre:

Dino and Katerine smoking fish from the barbasco in Anachere: